Need Analysis of Teaching Materials for Writing Stories with Papuan Culture in Grade V Elementary School

Learning Indonesian needs to be taught from an early age in elementary schools as a basis for language skills for studying other disciplines. Story writing skill is one of the language skills that must be mastered by students. In learning to write, the teacher should teach how to write, not just theory. There are several problems in learning to write children’s stories in elementary schools, including many students who have not been able to place capital letters, punctuation, letter clarity, lack of letters in a word, and there are still dirty, untidy writing, and lack of exploration of their insights in writing. To achieve this goal, researchers need to analyze the needs of students for teaching materials for writing stories and find descriptions of the forms and specifications of teaching materials that suit their needs. The method used in this study is a qualitative description. Data collection techniques with questionnaires and observation. Data analysis techniques obtained from quantitative data are interpreted into qualitative. The results of research on the analysis of the needs of teaching materials for students obtained an average score of 82%, and teachers obtained an average score of 88%. Based on the data obtained in the preliminary research to analyze needs, it can be categorized that most students and teachers need teaching materials for writing stories with a Papuan cultural perspective in learning Indonesian.